Tim Wakefield Was Once The Best Pitcher On The Planet

I came of age as a baseball fan knowing with absolute certainty that the Red Sox would never win the World Series. While I was too young to actually have witnessed the atrocity of Game Six in 1986 myself, the toxic miasma of the game still hung over the fanbase as I awakened to baseball consciousness a few years later. We still loved the Sox — we watched them all summer, talked about them all winter, and counted on them to create community in lower middle class exurban New England — but we didn’t believe in them.